Had to work today. Which kinda sucked. Well, no actually it pretty much totally sucked, since I ended up being there for 6+ hours. But I've taken a couple weekdays off the last month or so and been covered for, so the least I could do was return the courtesy. However, the day was largely redeemed by Kung Fu Hustle. Yowza was that fun. My initial reaction was that it's better than Shaolin Soccer but that might not be a fair comparison since I only saw that on DVD, not the big screen. But Kung Fu Hustle is just so insanely over-the-top. And yet, altho it bends the laws of physics in ways not usually seen outside Daffy Duck cartoons, it's not nearly as goofy as the trailer might lead you to believe. Which I chalk up to the trailer using Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" but the movie actually reaching us relatively intact both in dialog (subtitled) and music which was not terribly memorable but effective and at the very least wholly absent the current US film scoring tendency towards over-use of iconic/ironic oldies -- yeah yeah okay Tarantino makes it work for him but Pulp Fiction was 10+ years ago and even he's expanded his horizons a bit (see RZA soundtrack for Kill Bill por ejemplo). But I as usual digress... KFH is frikkin' awesome and y'all should go see it, seen?